A HUGE Transformation | Building Our Road With A Dozer

we bought a giant bulldozer to fix our road but as summer comes to an end it feels like we've spent more time working on the dozer than actually working on the road but to our surprise things take a turn this week and it feels like we might finally be winning this battle i think it's totally fixed now [Music] let's build the road [Music] time for some wedges [Music] okay i'm gonna do my best to explain the plan here so currently our road comes down this steep hill turns and goes back up a steep hill to the shop the plan is to shortcut this and just go straight across up there all the way over to the shop there are some big rocks in the way but i think the plan is going to work i'm walking up the hill to grab the dozer to get started [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there is mass destruction and chaos everywhere but we're getting a road in this is working this is awesome i keep bouncing between the chainsaw the excavator and the bulldozer trying to keep the trees out of the road base but uh check it out guys i started pretty much up there where the dozers parked i've made it all the way down there in like three hours [Music] [Music] i just came up to check on riley and i don't even know what to say in a good way you've only been doing this a couple hours but it's not broken it gets a lot of work done oh my gosh if this dozer doesn't break and i know that's a giant if i think we could have a road by the end of the week i think we could have a road by the end of the night let's fire up the lights it feels so good to like just i've gotten a full three hours in without a problem and you've done so much this has been awesome [Music] [Music] the shop is right here behind me and we're about to start the most exciting part of this entire project which is cutting our new driveway in and connecting the dots from our home to our new road [Music] we decided it's probably a good idea to move the army truck before we start cutting trees down tree army truck foreign [Music] nice job i don't know if you guys have seen this video yet but we actually went live cutting it in this section of the road someone in the live name chad i actually noticed that a bolt had fallen out on this on the u-blade uh whatever this thing's called and uh so check it out so let's do a bolt no bolt so huge thanks to chad for noticing that before things seriously went wrong fell out right here no way that's right right on the net struck out at store number one finding the bolt here's start number two i think the backup plan if we don't find a new bolt is to find the old bolt it's not the right bolt but it's the biggest bolt we could find i'm gonna see if i can make it work well enough to put this thing together to keep working today and order the right stuff i have a present for you i'm not going to tell you what it is hello oh a shirt oh sweet army truck shirt we just added these to our merch shop so if you want to get one for yourself you can go to our channel about info and then there's a merchandise tab and i think they came out pretty awesome well thank you courtney you're welcome the longest biggest bolt i could find on the saturday in town is just a hair too short i guess that means i'm going to try to find the old bolt thank you all for commenting and emailing and messaging us with tips on where you think the bolt is it's pretty cool to have a community that's so helpful and and yeah we reviewed the footage and we agree the bolt has to be right here somewhere but it's not maybe we should get a metal detector not there ah it's got to be right here somewhere okay have you ever used a metal detector before no i have no idea what i'm doing me neither i don't even know how it works all right there's a lot of different i'm gonna turn the sensitivity up okay so i get the instructions here i know [Music] yeah you have to hold the button okay so the bolt is about this size [Music] okay don't fall right there no way it's right there [Music] i feel like you're digging for gold it's way more important than gold oh my gosh no way we found it okay that's so awesome we were pretty skeptical that this was gonna work i also thought that it was gonna be absolutely hammered from getting run over but it's only a little bit hammered and i think i can clean it up with a file and put it back together nice job you're gonna be back dozering today we're gonna be back on the road today guys what are you looking for now found it all right i'm going on an exploratory mission to see how i'm doing trying to get to right over there and i'm actually significantly above it i'm actually way higher up on this hill than i expected to be able to get and that's a good thing because that means i'm probably going to be able to eliminate most of the slope through here do a little dance what are you about to do connect the dots what [Music] [Music] [Music] this is so exciting we are about to connect the dots on our road wow [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] bye courtney i think she might be taking the excavator to town this is the road i did last night and that's where the dozer is this is exciting we're about to connect the dots oh my gosh [Music] [Music] [Music] today is a complete change of pace and i am so excited this is a project that i know courtney has been looking forward to for a long time and we just haven't made time for it until now so today's project is all for the dogs step on is something we've been avoiding this area back here is sort of my hiding place and i don't even think courtney knows what's back here oh boy oh it's not that bad basically everything that i don't know where to put it but we don't want it to show up in shots on camera goes back here all right you guys step one let's get this all cleaned up we didn't plan this very well [Music] what just happened where are they all in my ratchet strap picked it up and they started coming out oh no [Music] so [Music] now that we have everything cleaned out of here we can start prepping the site the dog run is 10 feet wide and we don't have quite 10 feet right here so i'm going to stack some rocks and try to get this a little more level and smooth before we put gravel down [Music] now that it's wide enough it's time to spread the gravel [Music] [Music] because the back here is sloped for drainage this doesn't line up parallel with the wall i'm going to dig a little bit down to kind of shift this whole thing a little bit so that it's plumb we don't want to raise the side up because boone likes to dig and if you give him an inch he's going to take a mile then what is how is it standing it's really dug down a little bit and that looks good and now we've got nice contact right here when we were brainstorming ways to attach this to the building riley had the really good idea of using conduit clamps they're cheap they're strong and they should work really well [Music] [Music] today i won't mind when i'm in the doghouse [Music] one down three to go [Music] okay and just like that it's time for the last one and that is why we bought a dog run and didn't build one i also don't think we could have built this for the price of this thing it was actually really inexpensive and it's powder coated which is really cool [Music] this is awesome i think that the dogs are gonna love this everything has been so ginormous and drawn out this summer that a little project like this i think is just what we needed so now it's time to do the final step which is the probably the most terrifying step which is to cut a hole in the side of our building wish us luck [Music] [Music] [Music] are you actually trusting me with this yeah i'm only allowed to do caulking on the back of the building [Music] [Music] i think bailey will appreciate that you cleaned it up and made it pretty for her we'll add this is a two-part door but we won't add the inside half until we're doing our interior wall treatment so for now the door is done and now it's time to add a few more things to this before we let the dogs in [Music] there's one more important thing i need your help with so this way [Music] in the middle of the gravel area and stand it up that's ridiculous but we're gonna need to get a fire hydrant [Music] i think that's it and there's only one thing left to do the question is are they going to figure it out on their own they've never had a dog door before [Music] good job [Music] [Music] but you didn't even use your log man [Music] they figured it out and they've already used it to go to the bathroom i think that's a win this is something that i've wanted to do for a really long time and i'm really happy with how it turned out because when i do things for the dogs it just brings me joy i'd like to give a quick shout out to ariat work boots court and i've been wearing ariat boots for years now and the team over at ariat noticed and actually hooked coordinator up with an entire new lineup of work boots i'm really looking forward to giving these new turbo carbon toe boots a shot around here so far they're the most comfortable boots i've ever put on not only is ariat supporting our channel they're also supporting you with a 10 discount code so check out the links below to find out more about our favorite boots and claim your discount well guys i was upstairs editing and riley just messaged me that i should probably come out because something exciting is about to happen and i can hear the bulldozer like right there so i better get out there before he flattens our whole hill so this cedar tree is one that i was really hoping to save we are going to save the logs from this one and hopefully we'll be able to get it milled us and into some lumber that we can use around here for other projects ran to town and got more fuel time to fill up this dozer and get this road finished our friends tyler and carla and most importantly charlie are visiting tomorrow you might remember them from the black series off-road trailer video they're coming here in a two-wheel drive motorhome and we've got to get them down this road right guys i don't think i can avoid this tree any longer there's a problem i seem to have stirred up a yellowjacket nest and i don't think i can push this one over with the dozer i think i need to cut it down first so i don't know that didn't really work i don't think i want to stand up there on that hillside with the chainsaw and those yellow jackets so i think i am just going to try to push it over wish me luck [Music] this machine is insane i have no idea what happened to the yellow jackets kind of expected them to come out in a vengeance towards me but [Music] this summer has been majorly focused on building a new road and today we're going to test that out we have a special delivery coming [Music] you

Channel: Ambition Strikes

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Keywords: off-grid barndominium, diy pole barn, diy truck camper, couple builds rv, diy snow tracks, husband and wife build, off grid home build, couple builds dream home, building our off grid home, heavy equipment, bulldozer

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Length: 26min 26sec (1586 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 04 2022